Former Personal Trainer Sues Planet Fitness Over Alleged Racial Slurs

A former personal trainer at a Pittsburgh-area Planet Fitness is suing the company and the club's then-manager, claiming he was harassed with racial slurs.

A former personal trainer at a Pittsburgh-area Planet Fitness is suing the company and the club's then-manager, claiming he was harassed with racial slurs.
Marcus Rose filed a lawsuit against the Newington, NH-based company and Brandon Bell, the manager of the club when Rose was employed there for two years, Pittsburgh TV station KDKA reported. Bell is no longer employed by Planet Fitness, the station reported.
"[Bell] would come around me saying the shoe shine joke," Rose, who ...

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